In this ongoing weekly preschool and early literacy course, students will use an engaging multi-sensory approach and a variety of strategies as they master the the alphabet. While focusing on beginning reading skills and phonemic awareness, students will practice reading and writing their ABCs. Phonemic awareness training is an essential and foundational part of the reading process that provides students with skills and strategies that support their decoding and reading. 

To facilitate your students' literacy development, we will use the Learning Dynamics Reading System. Learning Dynamics is a nationally recognized and research based program that helps students develop language and comprehension skills.

Students will have explicit instruction on blending sounds together using CVC words. As we focus on one letter each week, students gain an understanding of how individual letter sounds, phonemes, fit together to create words. Sight words will be introduced to support students’ fluency and confidence in reading. 

To build phonemic awareness, an essential and foundational skill in early literacy, students will spend time each class focusing on phonemes in words and identifying how words are similar and different. 

You can expect to see your student using songs, stories, manipulatives, rhymes, games and movement actives as a they master each letter of the alphabet. We will integrate other early childhood learning objectives throughout the course including number sense, counting, shapes, colors, patterns, vocabulary, and weekly crafts as they relate to our letter study. Your student’s learning will be enhanced through theme dress up days, movement, music, songs, and activities.  

I look forward to meeting you and your student as they work on become readers from the comfort of your own home!

Sample Class Agenda: 

- Welcome
- Introduce the weekly letter
- Song reinforcing the letter
- Class activity and movement 
- Fine motor skill activity
- Phonics & Phonemic Awareness instruction
- Word Work
- Goodbye Song

Letter of The Week: 

Week 1: June 3
Class 1- M
Class 2- A

Week 2: June 10
Class 3- P
Class 4- S

Week 3: June 17
Class 5- T
Class 6- B

Week 4: June 24
Class  7- H
Class 8- G

Week 5: July 1 
Class 9- D
Class 10- N

Week 6: July 8 
Class 11- R
Class 12- L

Learning Goals: 
Students will master letter-sound correspondence for the alphabet during 
Students will learn letter-sound relationships systematically.
Students will practice sounding out words with letter-sound blending.
Students will build phonemic awareness by manipulating letters and identifying how new letters change existing words.